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Title: In Shocking Twist No One Could Have Foreseen, Kochs' Family Empire Founded on Government Handouts
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URL Source: http://www.tinyrevolution.com/mt/archives/003572.html
Published: Nov 11, 2011
Author: Jonathan Schwarz
Post Date: 2011-11-11 11:46:31 by mininggold
Keywords: None
Views: 6024
Comments: 12

In Shocking Twist No One Could Have Foreseen, Kochs' Family Empire Founded on Government Handouts

Yasha Levine has written a great short history of the life of Harry Koch, grandfather of Charles and David Koch and founder of the family's economic empire.

Guess what?

In the second half of the 19th century, America was in the grip of a massive railroad boom. Boosted by eager investors, lucrative subsidies and free land, railroads sprung up connecting every corner of the United States without much thought for demand or necessity...

Dutch investors were heavily involved in several railroad lines in the North Texas area, including the Fort Worth and Denver Railway Company, which had spawned Quanah in 1887 and owned just about all the land in town. County records show Harry provided advertising services and worked directly for the Fort Worth and Denver for nearly 20 years, sometimes receiving payment in the form of land transferred directly from the legendary railroad builder Grenville M. Dodge, who helped lay the Union Pacific and more than a dozen other lines across the country.

So, first the government kills the Indians. (In fact, before Grenville Dodge was a railroad magnate he was a general in the U.S. Army, and Wikipedia tells me that he ordered the punitive Powder River Expedition against the Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapaho in 1865.)

Then the government hands over the land for free to the railroads, along with giant subsidies of other kinds.

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#7. To: mininggold (#0)

The article doesn't describe a handout.

A K A Stone  posted on  2011-11-11   20:25:47 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: A K A Stone (#7)

The article doesn't describe a handout.

It was part of the redistribution of Indian lands (and other subsidies) by the Federal Government, after the tribes were either killed or forceably removed by the military, commanded by a general who ended up profiting from it the most.

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#9. To: mininggold (#8)

Have you ever read in the Bible what happens to the land of the Godless?

A K A Stone  posted on  2011-11-11   20:39:08 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: A K A Stone (#9)

Have you ever read in the Bible what happens to the land of the Godless?

Let's see if Eqypt, Rome and China prove your thesis.

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#11. To: mininggold (#10)

Egypt is no longer the most advanced nation on earth.

Rome fell long ago.

Isn't there some grass root christians in China?

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